Details
| Type of Product: |
Journal Article |
| Publication Title: |
Science Scope |
| Publication Date: |
3/1/2004 |
| Pages: |
3 |
| Grade Level: |
Middle School |
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Description
With some ingenuity and forethought, teachers can make simple modifications to a standard paper chromatography lesson that will improve student interest and extend inquiry learning. After separating the components of a water-soluble marker, students can collect, record, graph, and analyze quantitative data about their chromatograms.
Ideas For Use
The activity and modifications of paper chromatography described in this article is an example of "structured inquiry," in which the teacher provides the question or problem to be investigated, the materials, and some or all of the procedures. Further modifications include using a "guided inquiry" approach, where the teacher provides the materials and question(s) to investigate and students come up with the procedure. Still further modifications could result in a more "open inquiry" approach where students begin to formulate their own questions to ask and then proceed to devise their own investigations.
Additional Info
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Science Discipline:
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Properties of materials
Science process skills
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| Intended User Role: | Curriculum Supervisor, Middle-Level Educator, Teacher |
| Educational Issues: | Classroom management, Curriculum, Inquiry learning, Instructional materials, Teacher content knowledge, Teacher preparation, Teaching strategies |
Technical
| Resource Format: | application/pdf |
| Size: | 61.7 KB |
| Requirements: | Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader |
National Standards Correlation
This resource has 6 correlations with the National Standards.
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- Content Standards
- Quality Teaching
- Deepens educators’ content knowledge, provides them with research-based instructional strategies to assist students in meeting rigorous academic standards, and prepares them to use various types of classroom assessments appropriately. (NSDC)
- Teaching Standards
- Teachers of science plan an inquiry-based science program for their students.
- Select science content and adapt and design curricula to meet the interests, knowledge, understanding, abilities, and experiences of students.
- Teachers of science develop communities of science learners that reflect the intellectual rigor of scientific inquiry.
- Model and emphasize the skills, attitudes, and values of scientific inquiry.
- Science as Inquiry
- Understandings about scientific inquiry
- Physical Science
- Properties and changes of properties in matter
- Science as Inquiry
- Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
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